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Texan plays April Fool’s joke on SEC, investors with 999 billion shares

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Footnoted regulars know that we don’t usually pay much attention to insider-related filings — those Form 3s,4s and 5s — which make up roughly 1/3 of all filings made to the SEC. Instead, we prefer to focus our attention on the roughly 400,000 other filings for a number of reasons, but mostly because we think [...]

Fake Warren Buffett…

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

First, there was Fake Steve Jobs, a popular blog that was written in the voice of Apple’s (AAPL) CEO. Then the folks at Newsgroper came along with a site devoted to fake blogs from people like Ann Coulter, the Pope and Warren Buffett. Now, judging by this press release from the SEC yesterday, real life [...]